Psychoneuroimmunology research, narrative medicine, positive psychologies, research on the health benefits of traditional values, social networks, and occupation, modern concepts of embodied cognition, and renewed interest in the person-to-person elements of the clinician/patient relationship, all point to a gradual closing of the culturally-assumed gap between mind and body. 

The impressive spectrum of interactional methods that are emphasised in the Conversational Model, although diverse, can be organised around the idea of an empathic 'pressure' to reconcile the I with the ME; the potential to mean with the actual trace of a life history; a conception of living with its realizations.

Nightmares present issues of high anxiety or horror, which the dreamer feels inadequate to deal with. The nightmare is essentially a cry for help to the conscious mind. It is usually in metaphorical form, and components of the imagery can offer clues to resolution, as Margaret will present through a range of examples from her clinical practice.

In Movement Analytic Theory we diagnose the kinesthetic, the formal, the functional and the gender embodiment. The client/ patient has the possibility to perceive suppressed and available movement ressources, getting in contact with his invisible body through movement and inter-subjectivity and by feeling the conflict, to begin to integrate movements that were not available.

After several months of neurofeedback, a young woman said, “I have never been more myself and never known less who I am.” Although her statement is exceptional, her experience is not. This talk seeks to extend the discussion to the effects neurofeedback has not only on symptoms, but also over time, on personality and identity.